APC Battery Management System - Manual (Page 126)

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USER’S GUIDE
Battery Management System
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Creating and Installing Digital Certificates
Purpose
For network communication that requires a higher level of security than
password encryption, the Web interface of the Battery Management System
supports the use of digital certificates with the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
protocol. Digital certificates can authenticate the Battery Management
System (the server) to the Web browser (the SSL client).
The sections that follow summarize the three methods of creating,
implementing, and using digital certificates. Read these sections to
determine the most appropriate method for your system.
• Method 1: Use the Battery Management System’s auto-generated
default certificate
.
• Method 2: Use the APC Security Wizard to create a CA certificate and
a server certificate
.
• Method 3: Use the APC Security Wizard to create a certificate-signing
request to be signed by the root certificate of an external Certificate
Authority and to create a server certificate
.
.
You can also use Method 3 if your company or agency
operates its own Certificate Authority. Use the APC Security
Wizard in the same way, but use your own Certificate
Authority in place of a commercial Certificate Authority.